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Just thought I'd quickly check in to see what you guys have been up to lately.

Any decent jobs you've done? Moved house? Been on holiday? Bought any new tools? New van? Got a new job? Finished training? Found a new employee?

Fill us all in. :)

Keep it polite and clean lads and ladies, this is in a public forum.
 
Well I have retired, now I just travel

I gave all my tools to an apprentice

Since I retired 3 years ago, I have travelled over 250000 miles,

I have been Overland to Australia, that took 8 months

Been to Sth America, India, now planning a 8-9 month trip to Africa

I think I have worked long enough now, so I think I am entitled to do what I want now

Plumbing paid for all of this, I saved my money, never ****ed it away

I can still do any work, but I just pick and choose the jobs I want and they are for cash only

Well lads enjoy yourselves out there, there is now one less
 
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Derrick229 said:
Well I have retired, now I just travel

I gave all my tools to an apprentice

Since I retired 3 years ago, I have travelled over 250000 miles,

I have been Overland to Australia, that took 8 months

Been to Sth America, India, now planning a 8-9 month trip to Africa

I think I have worked long enough now, so I think I am entitled to do what I want now

Plumbing paid for all of this, I saved my money, never ****ed it away

I can still do any work, but I just pick and choose the jobs I want and they are for cash only

Well lads enjoy yourselves out there, there is now one less
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I'm not jealous at all!!! Honestly.

I have been daft and gone self employed I'm enjoying it but not earning a lot at the moment but slowly getting busier.
 
Derrick229 said:
Well I have retired, now I just travel

I gave all my tools to an apprentice

Since I retired 3 years ago, I have travelled over 250000 miles,

I have been Overland to Australia, that took 8 months

Been to Sth America, India, now planning a 8-9 month trip to Africa

I think I have worked long enough now, so I think I am entitled to do what I want now

Plumbing paid for all of this, I saved my money, never ****ed it away

I can still do any work, but I just pick and choose the jobs I want and they are for cash only

Well lads enjoy yourselves out there, there is now one less
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So there is life after plumbing then! :)
 
Oh man busy

Iv been really busy fitting boilers & teaching my nephew the ropes, done 6 boiler swaps and three full installs boiler reads pipe etc all in one month;0/
 
Lately seems to be work work oh and more work, i have no life and i dream of sodder lol, Seriously i need to start saying no and that im to busy, the closest i get to a good pint nowadys is a wee trip to the arms lol,
It really is a sore fight for half a loaf,
 
Bought a new van on Sept 1st. First time I've ever bought a brand new vehicle.
Got a shiny new apprentice.
Got a qualified lad working for me part-time as well.
Just finished commercial gas changeover.

Been a busy summer... :)
 
got into an inshore lifeboat this evening, the small bouncy things, to go check out a calf that had fallen down a cliff. Realised 5 minutes into the trip why old gits like me should remain on all weather boats (the ones with tea making facilities), so spotted said animal, to rough to put boat on beach, swam ashore with another crewman, bouncing off several rocks on the way. Approached beastie, who had grown into an 8 month old steer as we got closer. Poor beast was obviously suffering and refused to take to the water to allow us to get it to safety and chasing it around would only have got it a broken leg slipping up, or me a broken something! So now it was a 50 metre swim out to the boat against 2-3 metre waves, luckily fear and adrenalin do work and gets you to said boat eventually. Funniest bit was the helm telling the two now exhausted old crewmen to call up the coasties and tell them we on our way home, once you have your breathe back he added. Farmer will have to take action himself to deal with the poor beast.
 
Existing I know , but yes new van here, and actually sign written for the first time.
i am really trying to slow down, 55 years old and I would leave a 17 year old in my wake .
loosing mum this year has made me realise how precious life is , and work should be way down the list .
 
easy for a 55 yr old to leave a 17yr old behind, as they never get up before 2pm :), nothinh to do with working hard :)
 
I've impregnated the mrs twice this year. First one didn't make it but being a quality tradesman I didn't stop until the job was done. All being well I shall be a 3 time dad by Christmas!
 
APPlumbing said:
I've impregnated the mrs twice this year. First one didn't make it but being a quality tradesman I didn't stop until the job was done. All being well I shall be a 3 time dad by Christmas!
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Congratulations!
 
Got a Mikita 18volt angle grinder and a 18volt circular saw
spent Sunday with my dad making my ron paulk bench wich to me spending the day wth my dad playing chippy was priceless wish we had done more of it when I was a kid
thanks dad
 
Took the summer off (more or less, stopped home for the odd top up of cash) and toured all around Scotland and Northern England in a caravan seeing places i never knew existed.
Probably the best year of my life.
 
tamz said:
Took the summer off (more or less, stopped home for the odd top up of cash) and toured all around Scotland and Northern England in a caravan seeing places i never knew existed.
Probably the best year of my life.
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Good to see you back on here Tam. Glad you're well and happy. Stick around mate, you've been missed.
 
tamz said:
Took the summer off (more or less, stopped home for the odd top up of cash) and toured all around Scotland and Northern England in a caravan seeing places i never knew existed.
Probably the best year of my life.
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probably worse for all those following you :)
 
Derrick229 said:
Well I have retired, now I just travel

I gave all my tools to an apprentice

Since I retired 3 years ago, I have travelled over 250000 miles,

I have been Overland to Australia, that took 8 months

Been to Sth America, India, now planning a 8-9 month trip to Africa

I think I have worked long enough now, so I think I am entitled to do what I want now

Plumbing paid for all of this, I saved my money, never ****ed it away

I can still do any work, but I just pick and choose the jobs I want and they are for cash only

Well lads enjoy yourselves out there, there is now one less
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Well done and fair play to you! Enjoy!
 
I came intothis forum a few years ago to learn more about plumbing as I love DIY andfixing stuff. In 2009 I was redundled from you safe little job with BT anI thought, 'Opportunity knocks!' and when the very nice man from T4T told me Icould make some really good money being a Plumber I was sold and began thecourse.

Then I found a nice little earner for one year fixed contract doing what I'dbeen doing at BT for more money and my studies sort of fell away. I kept them up though as I wanted the C&Gbadge to at least make it worth the £3k I’d spent.
Finished my 1year contract and started thinking about getting into plumbing again and reallygot my head down in the books. I beganto think that maybe the T4T wasn’t going to teach me all I needed to know as Iread reports on here about guys needing a lot of real-life experience whichmade a lot of sense.
Another jobcame up, permananent this time so I took that an dthen found out that my T4Tcourse had expired as I’d taken more than three years to get to module 24 orso. That p’d me off mightily and Imoaned a lot – which achieved what just moaning always achieves – Nowt!
I’ll be 65 inApril and the company I am working for keep sending me on training courses andtalk about my career development which I find a laugh. I have realised some things from experiencesof the past 5 years:

  1. Changing a hobby into a job probably won’twork as there’s a mile of difference between choosing a nice little radiatormove or similar on a Saturday morning with no pressure and being called out toa cold house and a client nagging, ‘Is it done yet’?
  2. If you have ajob you enjoy and the money is decent, why rock the boat? What I do now is miles away from plumbing butI enjoy it and the boss seems to appreciate my efforts.
My Mum died amonth ago and that caused some re-thinking too about the fragility oflife. I am just taking the days as theycame and happy knowing that if the job annoys me in any way I can slap the resigantionin and not worry about it. All the yearsof striving and sucking up to eejits who think they’re God’s gift are over.
Sorry, that wasa bit of a ramble. Anyone want a set ofT4T books?
ChipDoctor

 
Well, been keeping busy, as we have taken on 4 full time guys and decided to get an office to manage the paperwork. We now seem to be shouldering the national debt as there's tax, corporation tax, national insurance, vat, and various other deserving institutions that need our financial support.
Whilst the phone is still ringing, there seems to be ever such a lot of paper involved in this lark not to mention dealing with the various 'staff problems' that seem to arise on Mondays.

It does mean though that we are starting to grow slowly -not financially at the moment- which must be a good sign.

Regards

Arthur
 
Just moved house and spending a lot of time playing cardboard castles with the kids
 
Takes the mind off all the other more important but equally boring jobs to do......like setting up the office or hanging clothes up.
 
Ok Dan

Centralheatking has had a good summer


1. My company API as sold a device which goes into production this year
We got our Wras cert last week
2. I have bought another holiday let in N Cornwall - discount rates for UKPF
3. We have taken on 3 more fellas in advance of the hopefully cold winter
4. We are 3/4 way thro designing and getting patent for a solar thermal roof

Dan - we would like to place ads on here just like Alan does can you pm me please

centralheatking

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Dan said:
Just thought I'd quickly check in to see what you guys have been up to lately.

Any decent jobs you've done? Moved house? Been on holiday? Bought any new tools? New van? Got a new job? Finished training? Found a new employee?

Fill us all in. :)

Keep it polite and clean lads and ladies, this is in a public forum.
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I have seperated from my wife after 30 years, completed my first ironman, got a tattoo, moved house and swam a 10km race in the river Dart. Work wise I'm just finishing a wet room in London.
 
Thinking I might get into web hosting as I've got a few acorn electrons and a dial up connection ?
 
my big 50 this yr so I was treated by the family, a trip consisting of me a bike and sometimes a car across the USA and into Canada, 8 weeks of freedom just me and myself to worry about got back 20th sept
back too earth with a bump and reality, managed to tick several things of the bucket list :)
 
Hi,

Just been doing all the usual stuff.
My son has started his gas apprenticeship with me, which is good for us all. He is training at the Steve Willis centre in Portchester, Portsmouth. Always nice to have a helping hand.
 
tamz said:
Took the summer off (more or less, stopped home for the odd top up of cash) and toured all around Scotland and Northern England in a caravan seeing places i never knew existed.
Probably the best year of my life.
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You have been missed young man, glad you have been enjoying a well earned rest
 
Replaced old Baxi boiler with a new Vailant combi. Got rid of the hot and cold tanks and all the pumped shower kit. It all works fine and gas consumption has gone done hugely. The showers don't deliver as much water as before but we are getting used to it. The only problem that I had to do away with the water softener. This reduced the flow to the boiler by about 40% which was just too much. Now have in-line magnetic conditioner on the boiler input. I'm just hoping this is going to be effective. We are in a very hard water area. Nothing else to report. Just keeping out of trouble.
 
Hi da I have recently finished my nvq2 in plumbing and half way through nvq3, I got my van and am I'm currently in the process of setting up my own business
 
Hi ive been registered on here for a while but never really posted.

Ive been working as a contractor for British Gas for the past year also running my own business which has been a bit slow over the summer.

I got married and split up within 15months which has been a big waste of money. But a lesson learnt
 
Saw a tramp having a wee last week,and a big fox jumped out of our wheelie bin...
 
Working late so invested in new lights.
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Really impressed with milwaukieeeeeee again!
 
Had an abscess removed from my backside last Monday which was a treat!
Having the wound packed and dressed for three weeks......another treat!
Self employed so no work = no dosh.......TRIFFIC!

On the plus side I've got this place to keep me entertained now so not all bad......cheers guys!
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Clint 1979 said:
Had an abscess removed from my backside last Monday which was a treat!
Having the wound packed and dressed for three weeks......another treat!
Self employed so no work = no dosh.......TRIFFIC!

On the plus side I've got this place to keep me entertained now so not all bad......cheers guys!
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thanks is for sharing Clint!
 
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